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In Ethiopia, girls in Afar region undergo training to teach their communities about the harms of female genital mutilation.

Almost 8,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria’s eastern and southern states of Taraba and Cross Rivers over the past fortnight, bringing the total Cameroonian refugee population in the country to nearly 60,000 people.

Russia and China’s callous use of their veto power to stop the renewal of a UN resolution which expires on January 10,2020, will leave millions of civilians in northern Syria cut off from lifesaving aid, said Amnesty International on January 10,2020.

In response to the Trump administration’s aggression in Iraq and Iran and the assassination of Iranian military Commander Qassim Soleimani, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:

In response to a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian military commander and others, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi, had the following reaction:

The Amaury Sport Organisation should use its decision to move the Dakar Rally to Saudi Arabia to denounce the persecution of women’s rights advocates in the country, Human Rights Watch, MENA Rights Group, and 11 other international human rights organizations said on Jan 03, 2020. The 2020 Dakar Rally – formerly known as the Paris-Dakar Rally – will begin on January 5, 2020, in Jeddah, and finish on January 17, 2020, 9,000 kilometers later, in Al-Qiddiya.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arkansas filed their brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on December 30,2019 in their challenge to a set of Arkansas abortion bans and restrictions. The laws included a ban on abortion starting at 18 weeks of pregnancy, a ban on abortion based on a patient’s reason for seeking care, and a law prohibiting qualified physicians from providing abortions.　

Zack Martin, the owner of Crawler Haulers a trucking company based in Lafayette in Louisiana.

Armed men, who appear to have been security forces, physically attacked prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Gamal Eid in Cairo on December 29, 2019, Human Rights Watch said on Dec 30, 2019. This was the second assault against Eid since October.

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